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environmentalism

noun

Etymology

From environmental + -ism.

  1. borrowed from environnement
  2. suffixed as environmental — “environment + al”
  3. suffixed as environmentalism — “environmental + ism”

Definitions

  1. A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor…

    A theory that views environment, rather than heredity or culture, as the important factor in the development of an individual or group.

    • The first is that the present work in no sense represents a relapse toward the old environmentalism which believed it could find the causes of culture in environment.

  2. A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by…

    A political and social ideology that seeks to prevent the environment from degradation by human activity.

    • The need for environmentalisms engaged with the commons rather than relegated to the individual consumer or tied to the middle-class principles of private property.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for environmentalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA